Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play such a huge role in their lives. If you offer independence, there is one kind of pitfall; if you shelter them too much, there is another. And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

Chyler Leigh

I'm always worried that lipstick is on my teeth or caked in the corners of my mouth.

Alfonso Cuaron

I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.

Andrew Greeley

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Amy Sedaris

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

Amy Tan

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

Anthony Braxton

I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

Andy Summers

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Alexandra Adornetto

To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Eddie Van Halen

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

Dito Montiel

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

John Robinson

Many of these workers are teenagers and are in entry-level jobs.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Dick Van Dyke

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Dennis Quaid

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Prager

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Bobby Sherman

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Bob Costas

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.... What I believe is, if (Belcher) didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.

David Nicholls

...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...

It's time to tee it up and do it.

Once he got his teeth sunk into something, he just didn't let it go.

They have put the teeth back into it.

Dan Quayle

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Danielle Fishel

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

Daniella Alonso

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

Danielle Steel

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Daniel Negreanu

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Colin Meloy

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.